"You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down."
— Charlie Chaplin
"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
— Marthe Troly-Curtin
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpect..."
— Henry David Thoreau
"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Act rather than be acted upon."
— Unknown Stoic aphorism (Stoic ethic)
"It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning."
— Gene Roddenberry
"Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."
— John Stuart Mill
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
— Aristotle
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
— Socrates (recorded by Plato)
"They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams."
"The best way out is always through."
— Robert Frost
"In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning."
— Carl Sandburg
"We can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger ..."
— George Eliot
"While you can't control your experiences, you can control your explanations."
— Martin E.P. Seligman
"Life of man [in the state of nature] is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
— Thomas Hobbes
"Pessimism never won any battle."
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The more you can have control over your ego rather than let it run amuck, the more successful you'll be in all areas of life."
— Roy T. Bennett
"Know that this world is full of beauty if you have the eyes to see it."
— Louisa May Alcott
"The question is not what you look at, but what you see."
"Always believe in yourself and always stretch yourself beyond your limits. Your life is worth a lot more than you think because you are capable of acc..."